From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 15 17:45:29 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id RAA20940 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 15 Oct 1995 17:45:29 -0700 Received: from hda.com (hda.com [199.232.40.182]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id RAA20935 ; Sun, 15 Oct 1995 17:45:25 -0700 Received: (from dufault@localhost) by hda.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id QAA04303; Sun, 15 Oct 1995 16:46:51 -0400 From: Peter Dufault Message-Id: <199510152046.QAA04303@hda.com> Subject: Re: scsi(8) requested output here To: olsenc@smokey.ee.washington.edu (Clint Olsen) Date: Sun, 15 Oct 1995 16:46:50 -0400 (EDT) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199510152322.QAA06660@smokey.ee.washington.edu> from "Clint Olsen" at Oct 15, 95 04:22:35 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 604 Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > So, is there a way to use scsi(8) commands to have a disk spew back > data about its physical characterstics (heads, sectors/track, blah > blah)? Boot with the verbose flag (by specifying -v at the boot prompt) and you'll get that info printed out. You can also check the format device page (page 3) and the geometry page (page 4) to find how the drive is setup; use "scsi -f /dev/rsd?.ctl -m 3" (and 4) to read those two pages. -- Peter Dufault Real Time Machine Control and Simulation HD Associates, Inc. Voice: 508 433 6936 dufault@hda.com Fax: 508 433 5267